Ramesh Prasad Pathak
Senior Finance Officer

Mr. Pathak has more than 12 years of practical work experience in the field of administration and Financial Management with different bi-lateral development organizations, INGOs and NGOs in different parts of Nepal. He is an experienced professional specializing in financial management includes budgetary planning & monitoring, variance analysis, financial reporting, partners monitoring, facilitate internal audit, statutory audit and donor / project audit. He has excellent knowledge on operation of advance Excel (generate formulas) and different accounting software. He has a proven track record of effectively prioritizing multiple tasks and assignments in a fast-paced work environment to efficiently meet organizational objectives.

His experiences include logistics management, HR management, oversight day to day operation of office administration and interpersonal skills to form effective working relationships with people at all levels.

Mr. Pathak holds a Master’s Degree in Management with specialization in Finance from Tribhuwan University of Nepal.

Prabin Shrestha
Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Mr Prabin Shrestha is a public health professional with more than 8 years of experience in the field of health and development in Nepal. He has experience of working in the field of communicable diseases, programme management including planning and implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health related programs, community involvement, health system strengthening and research. He is skilled in programme designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; ensuring data collection, data quality, measurement of progress in line with the set targets and indicators, recording and reporting as required.

Shrestha’s areas of expertise includes programme management, health system and health service delivery, epidemiology, communicable disease control programmes, monitoring and evaluation and research. He has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He also has a Master’s degree in Public Administration, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Lal Mani Adhikari
Programme Manager

Mr. Lal Mani Adhikari is a development professional with more than fifteen years of working experience in health and development sectors of Nepal, particularly contributing in program management aspects including need assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation at national and regional level health projects. He has experience of working in the field of Tuberculosis and HIV program for more than 10 years.

Additionally, Adhikari is experienced in executing HIV/AIDS integrated health service program like Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT)/Ante Retroviral Therapy (ART)/Care Support Treatment (CST)/Community Home Based Care (CHBC) improving diagnosis, care and support and treatment services for people living with HIV and facilitated increasing access to care and treatment among cross border migrants. He is also involved in hosting and facilitating various seminars, trainings and orientations on TB and HIV program at national and regional level.

He is currently involved in Support to implement National TB Programme (SR model). He has previously worked in Reaching Across Border project (2006 to 2008), Bhutanese Refugees Resettlement project. USRAP (2009 to 2012) and TB REACH Project (2012 to 2016). He is skilled in Programme Cycle Management and Coordination; Post Disaster Humanitarian work; Health Research and Research Management; Monitoring and Evaluation; Logistics Management; Rapid field project implementation and TB and HIV laboratory management. Adhikari has completed Post Graduate in Public Health. Peoples-Uni, Manchester UK, 2016.

Study of diagnostic algorithms for optimal detection of Tuberculosis in a tertiary care centre of eastern Nepal. Co-Investigator, on pipeline publication, presented on 46th Union World Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.2015.

ADVANTAGE OF GENEXPERT MTB/RIF FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS SUSPECTS IN NEPAL. Co-Author. Conference: SEAR UNION conference on TB and Lung Health, At Kathmandu Nepal.

Implications of Molecular assays for Tuberculosis diagnosis in Nepal: A Literature Review: Author, Conference proceeding, published in abstract book of International Conference on Emerging Science and Technology, Biratnagar, Nepal, 2014.

Bimal Kumar Khen Shrestha
Senior Technical Officer – Nutrition

Mr. Bimal Kumar Khen Shrestha has more than 15 years of working experience in the food science and nutrition discipline. Establishing himself working abroad for more than 10 years as research scholar, he has been working in Nepal under various nutrition related projects to improve maternal and child health nutrition. Mr. Khen Shrestha has sound knowledge and experience in health systems, operations research, and programme based monitoring and evaluation in the context of Nepal. His profound knowledge on nutrition, passionate to work for marginalized population in hard-to-reach and ground to earth nature areas makes him versatile.

His areas of expertise lies in the field of Health Systems Research, Operational Research, Policy and Strategy Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Partnership, Coordination, Research Mobilization and Project Management.

As a Senior Technical Officer – Nutrition at HERD, he is responsible to provide technical leadership/support/facilitation in designing and implementation of MSNP related nutritional intervention activities. His areas of expertise include technical backstopping regarding designing of the project plans, its implementation strategy, report writing and developing research and policy briefing. He takes full responsibility of project risk management by analyzing data, anticipating, identifying and mitigating risk factors.